[aprssig] Really CHEAP Puck-type USB GPS Receiver

[Stephen H. Smith]

On 1/20/2012 1:47 PM, r gilson wrote:
> OK now is there an adapter so this receiver can be interfaced to a D7 or D700 
> Radio?  Awesome and simple way to get on APRS.
> Ron  WA2WWK
>

The "adapter" would be a complete PC.

USB is a master/slave protocol (more commonly known a server/client protocol).  
USB devices (i.e. clients) can only talk to a PC running a fairly complex stack 
of device-specific software.   Until a computer master has initialized a USB 
client device and has assigned it an identity, USB devices are completely 
helpless.

There is no practical way to mate USB devices to other USB devices (or to 
non-PC devices such as Kenwood radios, OpenTrackers, TinyTracks, etc) without a 
computer master as middleman.

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